The anti-Facebook crowd: Are they elitists or psychopaths?

Wait a minute, I thought it was supposed to be the people who don't have a Facebook page that are psychopaths.

It's tough to avoid being on Facebook. You're almost an outcast if you don't have an account. I mean, what are you trying to hide, anyway?

An article published this week in the Daily Mail suggests that not having your own Facebook page could actually lead others to view you as a psychopath. With employers using social media sites to check up on job applicants, the lack of a Facebook page is viewed as suspicious, the story says.

My brother doesn't have a Facebook page, and it irritates the heck out of me. I want to see updates and photos of my niece, but he doesn't have a blog or use photo-sharing sites like Flickr or Picasa either. It's as if he's going out of his way to be different.

But does that mean he's a psycho? Maybe he just wants to keep his social life simple.

Facebook is supposed to make sharing with friends and family easier, but that's not necessarily the case. In fact, in the past 48 hours, I've been frustrated by Facebook for...

Creating a second Goodreads account for me, when all I wanted to do was accept someone's friend request in the app...

Not allowing me to edit a post, so I had to delete and start over five times trying to get text to fit in the limited window Facebook allows for display (I finally just gave up and let it crop the text)...

Changing my default sharing status to "Church," when I'd only intended to limit one post to my friends from church a few days ago -- and it turns out everything I've posted since then has been limited to my "Church" group...